TIDESONGShort DescriptionEmily Addison is a 26-year-old professor still healing from a failed marriage when Malachi Miller—22, heir to his father's real estate empire, and quietly desperate to become someone other than who he was raised to be—walks into her classroom and asks what story changed her life.She doesn't have an answer.He does.What follows is not a love story that happens quickly. It's a story of patience. Of waiting. Of two people learning to see each other clearly—first from opposite sides of a desk, then across the careful distance of professional boundaries, then finally, achingly, in the spaces where those boundaries used to be.He watches her. He waits. He touches her without asking, because her body has always said yes.She asks without words. A pause. A hesitation. A hand reaching. He answers every time.Around them: his mother learning to speak after thirty years of silence. His father learning to listen. His sister Cora—fierce, too-wise Cora—growing up too fast and writing her own stories and navigating the complicated truth of being seen by someone who didn't know how to look.Tidesong is about the spaces between wanting and having. About the people who stay, even when staying is hard. About the tide that doesn't ask permission—it just comes in, patient and relentless, until suddenly you're in water over your head and realizing, for the first time, that you've been waiting your whole life to drown.---That's the story.